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Historical Event on 2/11/1996
Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/7/1993 | Sai Baba escapes attempt on life. Four assailants and two bodyguards were killed. |
| 3/7/1952 | Parmahansa Yogananda, great saint, social reformer and writer, died at Los Angles. |
| 4/2/1942 | Congress rejected the proposal of Sir Stepherd Crips. |
| 3/23/1992 | G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 4/15/1975 | India recognises the Sihanouk Government in Cambodia. |
| 10/9/1993 | C. R. Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India, 8 runs @ 2.66, 9 wkts @ 54.78), passed away. |
| 9/18/1965 | Communist government threatens dire consequences on discovering Indian bases on the Chinese side of the China-Sikkim frontier in China. |
| 8/1/1932 | Meena Kumari, film actress, was born. |
| 5/17/1949 | India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
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